Artemis

Let me get this straight... You think a valid thesis is based on skimming one book and having only the initial reading done for another book? Well, wh...

Don't bother if you're going to be vulgar :brow:

So I guess they're also not not doctors or the president or cat lovers? A tabula rasa is by definition atheist. Absence of a belief in God is the same...

You got a new book. I thought you said that such reading was reward enough?

Interesting how you see yourself as exempt from your own strictures.... :chin: I don't think Sartre would agree with that kind of behavior either!

Not if you're sticking to your freedom under torture theory.

Which remains incomplete. I'm afraid that if you are looking for Sartre to confirm the exact beliefs you've expressed and attributed to him here... yo...

Would you like an award or something for that? Or just a standing ovation? Maybe some cookies?

The latter half of that statement is the obviously more selective way to read. Reading Sartre as a person who evolved and therefore changed his theory...

It's an evolution which blatantly contradicts the way you are trying to present Sartre.

Already told you.

Which Sartre denied...

Here: And here:

You keep in saying people "endure" torture, but it's not clear what that even means or who has done so? Can you be more specific?

Keep reading. Or just flip to the requisite page. No matter what you or Sartre might say about human freedom under ideal circumstances, the torture vi...

Well, Sartre evolved and refined his thinking eventually, and I suspect so will you :wink:

"Later, especially in Critique of Dialectical Reason, Sartre shifts to the view that humans are only free if their basic needs as practical organisms ...

I think that's an exaggeration. Clearly the torturer has already, de facto, limited our choices and thus our freedom. If at point A you have 100 choic...

Early Sartre. He got smarter later on. Actually, I think I read recently that psychologists agree with that idea about vertigo. It's a survival mechan...

Keep telling yourself that.

It's clear from the way you've interacted with pretty much everyone on this thread, that you just can't stand people making valid points against your ...

Mayhaps, but even Satre would recognize that the torturer has exerted higher authority by whittling down all the multitude of your usual choices to tw...

So you got nothing. :up:

My main point stands uncontested.

So... Your argument is based on someone else eradicating the near infinity of usual choices you have, narrowing it down to a miserly 2, but at least y...

That makes no sense.

If you're being manipulated, lied to, hypnotized, drugged, etc. YOU are not making any choices on your own.

That just means there might not be such a thing as a highest leader. I'm suggesting that in circumstances when someone else is causing your behavior a...

That kinda puts a wrench in the whole "being the highest judge and authority" bit.

So what if you're being hypnotized, drugged, manipulated, or in some other way duped?

Oh, oh, oh! Don't forget "God works in mysterious ways."!

Who is this "I" person and what makes them so trustworthy?

I suggest you write an OP (following the guidelines here, of course) on the limitations of the guidelines. Please include alternative suggestions and ...

Well... I suppose it's been perverted into that by some. But I think his point was not solipsistic--he was just examining the limits of certainty. The...

Although it's worked out that way in practice in America, there's no law or clause in the constitution which demands a two party system. There are a l...

Moderation for the sake of moderation seems nonsensical. What's the middle ground between slavery and abolitionism? And also, as others have pointed o...

No, you're just a Libertarian. Few people fit perfectly into any of these categories, so don't take it personally when it seems you have views "outsid...

I know that it's a currently discussed issue in Academia, and that statistically it is true that there are fewer conservative (especially socially) fo...

By whom and why does their opinion matter in the least?

That's a perfect analogy here.

I'm not against trying to find ways to change the seeming unchangeable, but I think it often leads to a lot of unhappiness when we want the change too...

I don't think there's one way to do it. It starts with recognizing and learning to accept things you cannot change. But how you get there? Up to each ...

Then you need to readjust your expectations. Or be forever unhappy.

Since I've already pointed a few of them out, and had you again try to move the target, it's clear that to point them out yet again would be a waste o...

Emojis are fine with me at this point, considering you just keep moving the target and pretending you didn't say what you did say.

Where in either of those quotes does he say anything whatsoever about opinions??? If anything, these are proof that Quine precisely did not believe wh...

Quine doesn't put them on a spectrum. It doesn't make any sense to put them on a spectrum. They are not the same category of thing.

I guess that's just your (unfounded) opinion then.

Without getting into your misinterpretation of Quine and how the word "opinion" is used in the context of empirical science as well as logic.... If th...

You cannot maintain both things at once.